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...Highness Padukka Mahasari Manaluna Hadji Mohammad Jamalul Kiram II, Sultan of Sulu, gave up the ghost last June. Only independent sovereign reigning under the U. S. flag for some years, he had legally surrendered his sovereignty in recognition of his place as head of the Moslem Church in the Philippines. He had a pension from the Philippine Government, a $5,000 annual tribute in the form of land rent from the British North Borneo Company and he was in fact the leader of 500,000 warlike Moros who have always despised their neighbors, the Filipinos, have never been licked...
Grave anxiety in the Philippine Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes was a matter Don Manuel did not mention. Nine days prior, from Jolo in the Sulu Archipelago, His Highness Padukka Mahasari Manaluna Hadji Mohammad Jamalul Kiram II, Sultan of Sulu and North Borneo, Judge of Agama, lineal descendant of the Prophet, had ascended to enjoy the limitless quantities of gold, jewels, silks, dates, rice, spitted lamb and beautiful women which await the Faithful in the Mohammedan Paradise. The Sultan, who for some years was the only sovereign reigning under the U. S. flag, lived on the tribute...
...same day that the National Assembly met in Manila the datus assembled at Jolo, determined to make Rajamuda Sultan. Again the wilful Princess got the best of Hadji Butu. She informed the visiting princes that according to tradition a Sultan of Sulu could not be chosen except by unanimous vote. Therefore they must wait until every datu from the farthest Moro island had arrived. The followers of Rajamuda called her by the names of she-animals. They declared she planned to make herself Sultana or-almost as unforgivable an insult to a warrior race-get the job for her husband...
...Died. Hadji Mohammed Jamalul Kiram II, onetime Sultan of Sulu, inspiration of George Ade's celebrated 1902 musical comedy of the same name, since his abdication in 1915 spiritual head of the Mohammedans of the Sulu Archipelago; on the Island of Jolo...
...Highness Padukka Mahasari Manulana Hadji Mohammad Jamalul Kiram, 67-year-old Sultan of Sulu, ruler in the 25th generation of a dynasty which claims descent from Alexander the Great, titular head of all the Moslems of the Sulu Archipelago and British North Borneo, onetime suitor of "Princess Alice" Roosevelt Longworth, only Mohammedan autocrat under the U. S. flag, lost his seat in Philippine Senate when Governor General Frank Murphy failed to reappoint...